I played here maybe 3 or 4 times. This place was magical to me. I was around sixteen back then. Hammond B3s and monster amps had to be lifted up 3 flights of stairs, one step at a time, by hand, on a very narrow stair case. I wish I could do it again! You could buy a Hot Dog for less than a buck from Coney Island on main, and a match box of weed for $5 bucks from a Bandito biker around the corner..... In the late 1960s, the music scene in Houston, Texas was exploding. We had Jimmie Vaughan and The Chessmen at the Catacombs; Johnny and Edgar Winter at Act III; Bubble Puppy, the 13th Floor Elevators and many others at a club called Love Street. Love Street Light Circus and Feelgood Machine featured live bands in front of a psychedelic light show. It was at the top of a 3-story building at Allens Landing, a park on the north end of downtown. This was the closest thing we had in Houston to a Haight-Ashbury scene: music, head shops and hippies everywhere. It was a terrific atmosphere for young guitarists wanting to be Yardbirds.
Posted on: Sun, 03 Nov 2013 06:34:01 +0000
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